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    A Plastic Ocean - Reflection Paper

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    The documentary "A Plastic Ocean" documents the filmmaker's discovery of vast amounts of plastic waste polluting the oceans around the world. Over four years, the film crew visited over 20 locations and found plastic pollution far worse than expected. The documentary highlights how developing nations struggle with plastic waste and how plastic affects human health. It argues that combating plastic pollution requires a concerted global effort and international cooperation, as this is a massive problem facing the current generation with an urgent deadline. While the issue is serious, the documentary also aims to show that awareness of plastic pollution is growing as individuals, companies and governments are beginning to adopt greener practices and policies to address the crisis.

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    The documentary "A Plastic Ocean" documents the filmmaker's discovery of vast amounts of plastic waste polluting the oceans around the world. Over four years, the film crew visited over 20 locations and found plastic pollution far worse than expected. The documentary highlights how developing nations struggle with plastic waste and how plastic affects human health. It argues that combating plastic pollution requires a concerted global effort and international cooperation, as this is a massive problem facing the current generation with an urgent deadline. While the issue is serious, the documentary also aims to show that awareness of plastic pollution is growing as individuals, companies and governments are beginning to adopt greener practices and policies to address the crisis.

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    The documentary "A Plastic Ocean" documents the filmmaker's discovery of vast amounts of plastic waste polluting the oceans around the world. Over four years, the film crew visited over 20 locations and found plastic pollution far worse than expected. The documentary highlights how developing nations struggle with plastic waste and how plastic affects human health. It argues that combating plastic pollution requires a concerted global effort and international cooperation, as this is a massive problem facing the current generation with an urgent deadline. While the issue is serious, the documentary also aims to show that awareness of plastic pollution is growing as individuals, companies and governments are beginning to adopt greener practices and policies to address the crisis.

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    A Plastic Ocean - Reflection Paper

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    The documentary "A Plastic Ocean" documents the filmmaker's discovery of vast amounts of plastic waste polluting the oceans around the world. Over four years, the film crew visited over 20 locations and found plastic pollution far worse than expected. The documentary highlights how developing nations struggle with plastic waste and how plastic affects human health. It argues that combating plastic pollution requires a concerted global effort and international cooperation, as this is a massive problem facing the current generation with an urgent deadline. While the issue is serious, the documentary also aims to show that awareness of plastic pollution is growing as individuals, companies and governments are beginning to adopt greener practices and policies to address the crisis.

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    The documentary assigned was “A Plastic Ocean” wherein director and writer Craig
    Leeson in his search for the elusive blue whale, unexpectedly discovers significant plastic waste
    in a part of the world that should boast pristine waters. He teems up with former BBC Blue Planet
    producer Jo Ruxton and World Champion free-diver Tanya Streeter, Leeson and his crew travelled
    to over twenty locations around the globe over the course of four years to document how deep our
    plastic problem truly goes and its worse than you think. It discusses the challenges that developing
    countries face with regards to heaps of plastic waste, the trickling down effect of plastic on human
    health, and the simple overdependence of the entire race on the substance.
    Unfortunately, this a rhetoric we’ve all heard time and time again. Our generation has
    grown up being taught to be more responsible with our trash and to practice recycling since we
    were in Preschool. It’s been two decades since that and we are still saying the same thing. Our
    rhetoric has not changed a single bit but there is a difference from where we are now to where we
    were two decades ago. Simply, everything regarding this problem has gotten worse. Apologies
    for the brash language but its just so damn disheartening that it is the way that it is. We have taken
    this living home of ours completely for granted and have been calloused to its plea for change. The
    plastic problem has literally infected every part of this world that it is within our very bodies taken
    from the food we eat. It is quite ironic that of all other species existing, it was the most intelligent
    and able that created the biggest problem of this earth. Suffice it to say, the documentary was very
    effective in the evoking strong emotions and entrenching deep care about the advocacy.
    The documentary raised the importance of a concerted global effort in combating this
    problem of pollution. This just highlights the importance of International Environmental Law. A
    problem this adverse and this well entrenched can only be stifled if the whole international
    community bands together and well, simply get their act together. If anything, this is the biggest
    problem that this generation is facing, and the international community must make this a priority.
    We just simply must fix this problem because unlike other problems that this community has faced,
    we are not merely bickering amongst ourselves, we are fighting for the very sustainability of our
    planet and that fight has a time element, we have a deadline to meet.
    Ending an a slight positive, this generation is arguably the most aware of this problem.
    Slowly, the advocacy is gaining ground. More and more people are turning to a greener lifestyle.
    People are using fewer single us plastic now and are choosing to go green. Individual states have
    passed laws which seek to reduce plastic use and even completely get rid of it. A place in Japan
    has been able to achieve a 100% recycling rate and if they can do it, surely anyone else can. Even
    big corporations are thinking of ways to become greener companies. Eventually we might even
    get to a point where green practices become international customary law. At the very least, we are
    finally caring about this problem and actively doing something about it. Harking back to the title
    of this essay however, hopefully, we still have enough time to fix this problem.

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